Villefranche is a small town in the Vosges, surrounded by spectacular forests and where the murder rate is six times higher than average. In other words, it’s the perfect place for the two seasons of Zone blanche, which translates to Zone without coverage, with the French connotation for metaphors that might call orgasm le petite mort.
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A series in which, it must be said, there is little room for carnal pleasures, a lot for murders and an immensity for the magnificent forest, the real protagonist of this intense and remarkable Franco-Belgian series in which the main actress Laurène Weiss stars as leader At the small local police station, he must face a series of crimes linked to a monstrous creature that lives in the ever-present forest.
And what couldn’t be less, the older Weiss also has a complicated past: she was kidnapped and chained – in the forest, of course – and lost two fingers on her hand. Of course, his subordinates don’t have a flawless resume either. Villefranche scores a lot.
And like any self-respecting series, “Zone Blanche” (Netflix) has a little bit of everything: a villain, owner and master of almost the entire city, a missing teenager, a bar that is much more important than that Library, if there is one. , and a bumbling prosecutor determined to find the culprit of so many crimes with the help of the Elder. Of course, with so much forest without cover, a touch of magical realism cannot be missed.
One day we would have to analyze Macondo’s influence on police shows. Until then, a tip: do not bring cell phones into Villefranche.
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